By pleasant tales and dissertations gay,
He wiled the lessons of my youth away. 120
“Of moral duties he would talk, and prove
They gave a sanction, and commanded love;
His sober smile at forms and rites was shown,
To make my mind depraved, and like his own.
“But wilt thou take him? wilt thou ruin take,
With a grave robber, a religious rake?
’Tis not to serve thee, Lady, that I came—
’Tis not to claim him, ’tis not to reclaim—